The Canadian Government was facing a tax gap due to the difference between their desired tax revenue and their current tax revenue. The Canadian Government’s solution to this situation was to increase cigarette tax with the intent of increasing current tax revenue. As it turned out current tax revenue actually declined. Why?
http://www.systemswiki.org/index.php?title=Tax_Revenue_Pressure
There are numerous ways to classify projects. The classification I would like to consider has to do with repeated familiarity. There are those projects which one repeatedly undertakes which are relatively the same, and then there are those projects which are unique one of a kind events. Unique in that the person or group tasked with their accomplishment has never undertaken a project of this nature in the past, and is not likely to undertake again in the future.
http://www.systemswiki.org/index.php?title=Project_Management:_Believing_in_Lies
The character of the questions we ask greatly influences the appropriateness of the answers we develop. If we ask short sighted questions should we be surprised if we develop short sighted answers? I would think not.
http://www.systemswiki.org/index.php?title=Formulating_Questions
I recently happened to read Daniel Aronson’s “Targeted Innovation” paper and it kicked off a train of thought that resulted in a set of Causal Loop Diagrams which surfaced what seems to be the essence of Systems Thinking.
http://www.systemswiki.org/index.php?title=Systems_Thinking:_The_Essence_of_AND
How often do we set out with the best of intentions only to have our actions unexpectedly foiled?
Farmers Markets: http://www.snipr.com/tewlo